Costs budgeting, or rather costs and case management to give it its formal title, has been one of the most contentious and hotly debated aspects of the Jackson reforms. That debate continues, most recently with Lord Justice Jackson’s lecture on the subject on 13 May 2015 and with the setting up of the sub-committee of the CPRC, led by Coulson J, to review the operation of the costs management rules. Continue reading
In the first of our guest posts by members of 39 Essex Chambers, Simon Edwards discusses Lord Justice Jackson’s Harbour Lecture entitled “Confronting Costs Management”, which was delivered on 13 May 2015. Continue reading
The Civil Procedure Rule Committee (CPRC) is an advisory non-departmental public body, sponsored by the Ministry of Justice. It is responsible for making and amending the Civil Procedure Rules, and it meets every month to discuss its work. Following each meeting, I will write a post covering the more significant issues that were discussed. Here are some snippets from the recent March and April meetings (the papers from which were made public on 20 May 2015). Continue reading